On 2014-03-08 10:06, Brady, Mike wrote:
> On 2014-03-08 08:23, Michael Potts wrote:
>> I have set up Bacula to backup several servers and everything is
>> humming along nicely.
>>
>> My goal is to get Bacula to backup to multiple smaller files instead
>> of one large (in my case ~2GB) file for offsite to Amazon S3. My
>> thought being if I can get the incremental changes from all the
>> servers each day to go to a new file. This file will then get picked
>> up by a cron job and sent to S3.
>>
>> The way to do this seems to center aroundÂ
>>
>>>> Use Volume Once = yes
>>
>> but right now that just creates a new volume for every backup. I just
>> want one volume per day and like 14 days history (so 14 volumes that
>> rotate around or I can use my cron job to delete volumes as needed).
>> For scale's sake, this will probably have 20 or so jobs run to it and
>> each job seems to net around 7MB of changed data. Total on the initial
>> backup is like 250MB per job. Backup jobs run at night but eventually
>> I want to crank that up to run several times a day (all to the same
>> daily volume)
>>
>> Relevant data from config files to follow:
>>
>> bacula-dir.conf
>>
>> Client {
>> Name = server-sandbox-fd
>> Password = <crazypassword>
>> Address = fqdn-to-server.srv.internal.domain.com [1]
>> FDPort = 9102
>> Catalog = MyCatalog
>> File Retention = 30 days
>> Job Retention = 6 months
>> }
>>
>> Job {
>> Name = server_SandboxBackup
>> Type = Backup
>> Level = Incremental
>> Client = server-sandbox-fd
>> FileSet = "Data Opt Backup"
>> Schedule = "Daily Evening"
>> Storage = File
>> Pool = Serverpool
>> Messages = Standard
>> }
>>
>> Pool {
>> Name = Serverpool
>> Pool Type = Backup
>> Volume Retention = 24h
>> Recycle = yes
>> AutoPrune = yes
>> LabelFormat = servervol_
>> Maximum Volumes = 12
>> Use Volume Once = yes
>> }
>>
>> Storage {
>> Name = File
>> Address = fqdn-to-server.srv.domain.com [2]
>> SDPort = 9103
>> Password = <crazypassword>
>> Device = FileStorage
>> Media Type = File
>> Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20
>> }
>>
>> bacula-sd.conf
>>
>> Device {
>> Name = FileStorage
>> Media Type = File
>> Archive Device = /mnt/backupdisk/serverbackups
>> LabelMedia = yes
>> Random Access = yes
>> AutomaticMount = yes
>> RemovableMedia = no
>> AlwaysOpen = no
>> }
>>
>> Thanks so much! Any insight or alternative approaches are appreciated!
>>
>> Michael Potts
>>
>
> Have a look at "Volume User Duration" in the Pool definition. Sounds
> like it might what you are looking for.
>
> Regards
>
> Mike
>
Oops I meant "Volume Use Duration".
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